Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Chris Corsano. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantaleimon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kenny Larkin,
Maleditus Sound,
Dave Gahan,
Godley & Creme,
Amon Düül,
Rites of Spring,
Barry Ungar,
Bluetip,
The Black Dice,
Chris Corsano,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ludus,
Liliput,
L. Decosne,
Minny Pops,
Bobby Byrd,
The Electric Prunes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
10cc,
Tommy Roe,
Section 25,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Stereo Dub,
The American Breed,
Dennis Brown,
The Red Krayola,
The Moody Blues,
D'Angelo,
The Tremeloes,
Throbbing Gristle,
Joensuu 1685,
Barbara Tucker,
Average White Band,
John Foxx,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gregory Isaacs,
Skarface,
Monks,
Soul Sonic Force,
Angry Samoans,
Yaz,
Model 500,
Amon Düül II,
Tres Demented,
Joy Division,
The Music Machine,
Deadbeat,
The Shadows of Knight,
Eve St. Jones,
The Divine Comedy,
Pagans,
Drexciya,
Fluxion,
Charles Mingus,
Organ,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Marcia Griffiths,
UT,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.